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Intensifying Infrastructure: Re-imagining Urban Bridges as Agents for Community Placemaking
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Sells, Tyler B
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1467126920
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2016, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Abstract
Within the backdrop of Cincinnati Ohio, the Purple People Bridge and its associated edge spaces are examined as a case study to address three global problems: infrastructure degradation requiring substantial investment, issues of access along waterfronts, and disengagement from the natural and built elements of the site. The interconnections among bridges, rivers, river banks and associated edge spaces have the potential to become more vivid, activated, and meaningful. Yet, the bridge typology continues to remain uncharged socially, experientially, and has lost its once multi-layered qualities that so invigorated many historical precedents, such as London Bridge, the Ponte Vecchio, or even more recently, the High Line in New York City. The restructuring of the site along the Ohio River will reveal and enhance its inherent qualities, as well as offer multiple uses, experiences, and programs, forming a new valuable public amenity. The Purple People Bridge becomes a landscape that gathers people and forms a new platform for events to unfold. The result of this work will raise awareness of the possibilities of architecture to catalyze the performance of underutilized, in-between spaces in the city, and ultimately shed light on how to further upgrade our urban spaces.
Committee
William Williams, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
John Eliot Hancock, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
Pages
55 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
architecture
;
urbanism
;
phenomenology
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bridge
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cincinnati
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ohio
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Sells, T. B. (2016).
Intensifying Infrastructure: Re-imagining Urban Bridges as Agents for Community Placemaking
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1467126920
APA Style (7th edition)
Sells, Tyler.
Intensifying Infrastructure: Re-imagining Urban Bridges as Agents for Community Placemaking.
2016. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1467126920.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Sells, Tyler. "Intensifying Infrastructure: Re-imagining Urban Bridges as Agents for Community Placemaking." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1467126920
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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